mycorrhiza

[ash]

I have to transplant a few of my citrus and I decided to wait and order some mycorrhiza so I can give it to them when I transplant them. So it will be a week or so before I can transplant them. And it made me wonder if people on this forum use mycorrhiza fungi. Idea be interested to know.

I've been growing lots of different plants for years so have used it often in the past but I'm new to citrus so I've never used it with citrus before. But a quick Google search showed me that it is compatible with citrus.


Incase anyone doesn't know what it is mycorrhiza is a fungus that forms a symbiotic relationship with your plants roots. It grows much faster than the roots of your plant and then takes the nutrients and feeds them to your plant. In return your plant give it a few things it needs such as carbon. Think of it as a whole new root system that you can give to your plant. And you only have to give it to the plant once and the plant will have the benefits for its whole life.

I put this in the section for growing in pots because mycorrhiza naturally is in the ground. But if you are planting a plant in the ground it can take up to 3 years for this symbiotic relationship to happen. But if you give it to the plant when you put in the ground then the symbiotic relationship should happen within a month.

This is my first time using mycorrhiza with citrus but I've had good results with other types of plants and from what I've read online it works just as well with citrus.

I'd be really interested to hear other people's opinions on using mycorrhiza. If you use it or not? Etc.

[sanguinho]

I didn't use it, but there are a few studies about it from spanish research institutes from Murcia (IMIDA), land of orange and lemons.

www.researchgate.net/profile/Josefa_Navarro2

An spanish article about it, you can translate this with google chrome browser or deepl.com, a very good translator.

universidadagricola.com/micorrizas-para-ahorrar-agua-y-fertilizantes-en-la-produccion-de-citricos/

[ash]

Thanks. The first one seemed very technical and was just about the plants uptake of phosphorus and involved very precise amounts of nutrition given to the plants.
Honesty it was very difficult to read. If English is your second language I don't know how you managed. I had to read it a few times to understand it.

The second one was quite interesting though. I had thought it was just naturally in all soil and only needed to be added to pots. But that seemed to say it wasn't in those citrus groves naturally. I'd be really interested to know if it could help solve the water problems

[DNoyau]

I’ve used a potting soil which was already "sown" with mycorriza (along with beneficial bacteria).

I am very happy with the citrus trees I put in it, but I have no way to tell whether the mycorrhiza are responsible for this. At least I can tell you they didn't kill the trees.

[millet]

Purchasing mycorrhizae is a waste of money.  All healthy plants already have mycorrhizae, otherwise they would not be healthy. Mycorrhizae is ubiquitous.  Their spores are everywhere even in the air. For long term plants like citrus, even if you planted sterilized seed in sterilized soil, as long as the container the plant is being grown in was in open air, it would become reinfected with mycorrhizae within weeks.

[roberto]

Millet, this is definetly not true. Some funghi are more or less ubiqitary others are not. And which funghi succeed and which will be suppressed one will hardly know in advance. If you were right there were no use in research on this field. I know and have seen with my own eyes that there is a significant difference geowing corn with or without added Mykorrhiza. Just for example.

[millet]

Roberto, write what you want. What I wrote concerning mycorrhiza  is the teaching of Florida State University's Citrus Department, which is one of the eminent citrus teaching Universities in the United States.. 

[roberto]

You could not falsify one word I wrote. But do what ever you want. I know there is success with Mykorrhiza.

[millet]

Roberto it would help if you would read posts.  No one wrote that mycorrhize did not work.  What was written, is that you do not need to purchase it, as mycorrhize is ubiquitous, it is everywhere. Its spores are even in the air.

[ash]

All the articles I read on it said that even if you planted it in the ground with the fungus then you could take years for it to colonize the plant because its slow growing and slow to repair itself.

Also I was supprised to read in the articles that sanguinho gave links to that in the studies they done in Spain they were introducing it into fully grown citrus Orchards. So maybe its isn't naturally everywhere.

I know that mycorrhiza is the only soil additive Endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain.

Personally I'll keep adding it to my new plants since I'd rather know its in there and I know Potting compost is sold almost sterile and I'd rather know its in there immediately than waiting for it to come naturally